Tuesday, September 07, 2010

Cereal Prawns/Shrimp

This is a popular dish in Malaysia and Singapore as many restaurants will have this dish in their menu. I remember cooking this dish once a year for our family reunion dinner. We just love the crunchy texture of the cereal and egg yolk. Cooking this is easy nowadays as we are able to get ready packed cereal prawns mix but sometime I like cooking it from scratch. One of my blog readers requested the recipe for this dish. So here it goes. I hope this is what you are looking for.

1. Use a pair of scissors to cut off all the legs of shrimps. Cut alone the back and remove the black vein. Leave the head and shell intact. Pat dries the shrimps and seasons it with a bit of salt and pepper.
2. Lightly dredged the shrimp with cornstarch. Heat up some oil to deep fried it (I actually pan fried it) Remove them once they turn pink on both side.
3. Remove all the oil in the pan. Wipe clean. Beat the egg yolk and add in the milk. Stir and mix well. If you are using oats, toast it lightly in a 375 degree F oven for 3-4 min.
4. Add in the 3 tbsp of butter to the frying pan. Swirl in the egg yolk and stir constantly. At this stage you will see lots of bubbles appearing in the pan. Add in the garlic, chilies and curry leaves. Continue to stir fry until fragrant.
5. Add in the oatmeal. Continue to stir and toss. Add in the chicken granules, sugar, pepper and salt.
6. Toss in the shrimps; continue to stir fry until the shrimps are well coated with the oatmeal. Dish out and serve.

Note: I actually wanted to use nestum for this dish but only found out that the nestum in my pantry is chocolate flavor so I just used oats. The result is not as good/crispy as I wanted it to be but you can replace the oatmeal with nestum.

Gert...can imagine how fragrant this dish is :) I love to cook shrimps in different variations but still this is the best besides cooking them in hot spices. The curry leaves and oatmeals will give it the oomph :)

I love this dish. The way you do it doesnt look that difficult as what I thought. I tried your honey sesame chicken last week - yummy. I didnt take photo nor post cos I forgot to buy sesame see and was rushing off.

This is a must order dish when eating out in a restaurant! Who could ever resist the smell of this dish. Hmm.mm.. super lucious! Thanks so much for sharing the recipe. Have a fabulous day.Cheers, Kristy

This immediately caught my attention when I saw the picture. This is new to me. It must be delicious. I hope the restaurant here serve this dish. I don't think I can make this dish since there are many ingredients here I am not familiar with. Maybe I get lucky finding it at the restaurant here.

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